
DeepSeek V4 vs Claude Opus 4.6 - Open Weight Meets Proprietary
A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.6 - the open-weight challenger that could match Opus on coding at potentially 89x lower output cost.
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A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.6 - the open-weight challenger that could match Opus on coding at potentially 89x lower output cost.

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index reveals that when Claude produces polished code and documents, users question its reasoning 5.6 times less often.

Anthropic's Claude hit number one on Apple's App Store after users publicly switched from ChatGPT in support of the company's Pentagon stance - but the narrative is more complicated than it looks.

Apple releases Xcode 26.3 with native support for Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, exposing 20 MCP tools that let AI agents build, test, and visually verify iOS apps autonomously.

President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.

GitHub makes Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex available to all Copilot Business and Pro subscribers at no additional cost, turning Copilot into a true multi-model platform.

Perplexity launched Computer, a $200-per-month autonomous agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI - staking the company's pivot from search engine to digital labor on infrastructure it rents from potential competitors.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a public statement rejecting the Pentagon's final terms, saying the proposed compromise language 'would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.' The Friday 5:01 PM deadline still stands.

Learn how to use deep research features in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity to get comprehensive, cited reports on any topic in minutes.

Vercel disclosed 2 critical, 2 high, 2 medium, and 1 low severity vulnerabilities in Cloudflare's Vinext framework - a Next.js reimplementation written almost entirely by Claude AI without human code review.

Kali Linux's new Claude AI integration funnels scan results, target IPs, and discovered vulnerabilities through Anthropic's cloud API, and the guide's only privacy note is a parenthetical shrug.

The Pentagon sent Anthropic its final terms for unrestricted military AI use Wednesday night, with a 5:01 PM Friday deadline that could end in contract cancellation, supply chain blacklisting, or Defense Production Act invocation.